The Right Host for "Meet the Press"

The Right Host for "Meet the Press"

New Maybach S--The "S" Stands for
Schadenfreude
:
U.S. sales of the Maybach, the pretentious Mercedes model that looks like a Hyundai but costs $400,000, haven't fallen into the double digits.
They've fallen into the single digits
.
S.F.Citizen
gloats that the 42 Maybach dealers "had
sales of just nine new cars
for all of America last month." ... Or maybe I'm getting the spin on the lede wrong.
They sold nine of these things!
A heroic marketing success. ...
P.S.:
Competitor Rolls Royce
sold 39
, however. ...
11:33 A.M

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Reports on the
Tribune Company's possible bankruptcy
(and presumed need to sell assets) should renew speculation about ...
David Geffen
. Maybe the
L.A. Times
' price is now down to where he could be re-interested. ... They own some valuable parking lots, I think. Unfortunately, there's a paper attached. ...
2:09 A.M.

[Caroline Kennedy] simply picks up the phone and lets it be known that she just might be up for having one of the highest offices in the land handed to her because -- well, because why? Because her uncle once held the seat? Because she's a Kennedy? Because she took part as a child in the public's romantic dreams of Camelot? I'm not quite sure.

There's an enormous problem in the Senate right now with entitlement, with the sense that its members owe their allegiance to each other and not to the public. .... [snip] I'm glad she had fun being part of a winning campaign in a year that saw a rather rosy playing field for Democrats. But simply being well-known and a member of the "American nobility" in a celebrity-driven society shouldn't be enough to axiomatically entitle her to be a member of the US Senate.

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